The aftermath
Hiccup was once again inside his workshop tinkering with his gauntlets. After the battle the arena had been set to close until it could be repaired from the damages, Korra offered the bending brothers to stay with her and Hiccup at air temple island, before he went back though he wanted to finish a project he'd been working on. "Alright, the the compartment is lined with seal skin, and the so now I just need to..." Hiccup said to himself, he had gotten the idea from when Jinora had told him stories of when Katara had used a seal skin to carry water with her, applying the concept to the gauntlets was hard but he had managed to make it work. He hallowed out the bottom half of the gauntlets so that the cables wouldn't get rusted in case the water leaked out. Lining the bottom with seal skin had been the real challenge.
As he continued working on his upgrade he failed to notice the presence of someone, "So this is where your little secret lair?" Hiccup turned to see Korra in the doorway looking around all the various tools and prototypes he had made. "Hey Korra, what are you doing in my part of the neighborhood?" he said smiling, she picked up a miniature catapult, "I was hopping you could help me move Mako and Bolin's stuff onto the island. That I wanted to see you." she said blushing a bit. Hiccup smiled, "Sure, and be careful in here, some if the things in here can be pretty dangerous." he warned as he returned to his gauntlets. Korra walked over to his back and draped her arms around his neck, "Whatcha working on?" she asked as she looked over his shoulder. Hiccup gave a grin, "My personal arsenal, Jinora gave me the idea when she was telling me about Katara during the war." he explained as he slid the bracer over the compartment. After putting one on her flexed his wrist which drew out water from the lid, "Cool huh?" he asked as he put the water back into the compartment. Korra nodded, " My genius boyfriend, think you could make me some?" she asked. Hiccup jokingly put his hand under his chin, "I don't know, what do I get in return?" Korra turned him around to face her and met his lips with hers. It was soft and timid at first but quickly tuned into a full make out session, Korra began to lean onto Hiccup, who in turn began to be pushed against the desk. Before anything could go any further, Toothless, who was currently confused by what his rider was doing, wedged his way between the two, surprising both of them, "TOOTHLESS!"
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After getting Toothless under control the two made their way towards the arena to find Mako and Bolin already packing, "You guys ready for the air temple?" Korra asked, the two seemed to wince, "Yea...about that..." Mako started but Bolin cut in, "Asami invited us to stay with her at her mansion, a MANSION!" he exclaimed, Mako rolled his eyes, but the smirk on his face said he was excited as well.
Korra looked down, "But you guys said that..." Hiccup gave them a look that said, You made her sad. Fix it or feel both our wraths! Mako quickly said, "The only reason we didn't tell you is...you don't seem to like her." he said rubbing the back of his head. Korra's head snapped up, "I've only met her three times, at most!" she exclaimed, Hiccup shook his head, "We can fix that, you can over and get to know her better." Bolin said, Korra crossed her arms and pouted, "Fine. I'll come over tomorrow." she said in defeat.
After bidding the two farewell Korra was still fuming a bit, "Stupid...prissy...pretty girl." she mumbled. Hiccup gently put a hand on her shoulder, "Look, I get that your mad, but Asami and I have been friends for a while, she's a good person. You'll like her, trust me." Korra absentmindedly nodded, "So how do you two know each other?" Hiccup smiled, "Well..."
(Flashback)
"Hiccup, sweetie you need to stay close." Toph said as she continued towards the station, she and Lin had just gotten the call that Ms. Sato had been murdered, Lin was currently at the crime scene and with neither of them able to look after Hiccup and Toothless, Toph decided to take them to the station. "I'm trying gran, but Toothless hates leashes." said reptile was trying his best to gnaw throw his chain. Toph picked the dragon up, "Look, deal with the chain and you'll get some extra fish tonight, deal?" she proposed, Toothless considered the idea and nodded.
After making it to the station, Toph instructed Hiccup to stay in her office until she came to get him. After several minutes of sitting quietly, he let out a sigh, "I'm bored, how about you Toothless?" he asked, turning to face his friend. Only to find him not there, "Toothless?" after looking in all the obvious places (under the seat and desk) he noticed the door was cracked open slightly, "Crap."
Peeking out the door, Hiccup saw Toothless's tail go around the corner. Scanning for adults, he took off after his best friend. As he rounded the corner he saw Toothless on a bench approaching a girl his age with dark hair, the girl looked miserable, her nose was red, her cheeks where tear stained, and her hair was frazzled, as Toothless approached her, she failed to notice her visitor, so she was surprised when she felt scales brush up against her hand, "Ahhh!" she exclaimed backing away from the creature, before Toothless could get closer a voice calls out, "Toothless! No!" the two turned to see Hiccup who was giving the dragon a disapproving glance.
"Bad dragon, no sneaking up on girls." the dragon looked down in shame, the girl gawked at the creature, "It's a dragon? Cool!" she said scooting towards Toothless, "He's Toothless, and I'm Hiccup, who are you?" Hiccup asked he sat on the other side of the dragon, "Asami. Why did you name him Toothless?" she asked,
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After Hiroshi gave his eyewitness account, Toph and him walked outside the interrogation room to find Hiccup and Toothless showing Asami a trick, "Okay, now fly!" he said as he threw Toothless into the air, he simply glided down and sat on Toph's shoulder, "I thought I told you to wait I'm my office Hiccup." she said as she looked down at him, he simply pointed to Toothless, "Don't look at me, he ran off." Toothless gave him a scowl, "I didn't know you where a grandmother Ms. BeiFong." Hiroshi said, as he look down at the boy, "Daddy, daddy, did you see, Toothless flew!" the man look at Toph with confusion, "Long story." Hiroshi smile and kneeled before Hiccup, "Well I thank you for looking after my daughter. We've both had a bad day." Hiccup nodded, "That's what friends are for."
(Flashback over)
"And that's how we met, Gran didn't even get mad at me." he said. Korra looked less mad and had a smirk on her face, "Katara always told me that me and Toph where pretty alike, I wish I could have met her." Hiccup face palmed, "That's not why I told you the story, I told you it because she's a old friend, and to be honest she can be really fun." looking at Korra he saw that she had regained her hostile look, "Not as fun as you are though!" he added quickly. Satisfied, Korra was about to give him a peck on the cheek but stopped.
Hiccup noticed and asked, "What's wrong? Do I have ash on my face? 'Cause that does happen when I'm in my workshop for a bit." Korra grabbed his hand and stopped them, "No, it's just...it's about what almost might have happened in there." Hiccup blushed red, Korra caught her mistake "Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it! But...I'm not exactly an expert with this kind of thing." Hiccup gave her hand a reassuring squeeze, "I understand, I'm not the kind of guy whose has a lot of girlfriends, in fact your the first, but we'll just have to move at our own pace." he said, Korra smiled and brought his head close, "I think I can live with that."
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Toothless and his rider flew above the Sato's racetrack, fallowing Asami and Korra's car as they raced, after being declared the victors, he landed by the bending brothers. "Okay, that was AWSOME! No offense but I thought you where one of those prissy girls." Asami waved her off, "None taken, I get that alot. Besides, a 'prissy girl' can't take on five people in hand to hand." she said, flexing her hand. Korra really was starting to like this girl. As the group returned to the house Korra asked "Ummmmm, where's the little waterbender's room?"Asami replied, "Upstairs, sixth door on the right."
As Korra left Hiccup went over to Asami, "So how's is everything lately?" she asked, Hiccup shrugged, "Pretty lax lately, other than the whole cabbage corp thing yesterday." Asami rolled her eyes, "No, I mean how are you and her doing lately, am I seeing the future Ms. BeiFong or what?" she asked, Mako and Bolin let out a snicker as Hiccup's face turned bright red, Me? Korra? Married?! KIDS!,!?" he thought, Asami gave him a pat on the back, "Relax, I'm joking. You looked like Toothless had baby dragons." she said. Toothless himself gave Hiccup a similar look, "Oh, not so funny when the shoe's on the other foot is it bud?" Hiccup said mockingly, Toothless thwacked him in the head with his tail. Before he could retaliate, Korra returned and quickly began to drag Hiccup away, "Sorry guys but I forgot we promised to look after the airbending kids, gotta go!" she said exiting the house, Toothless in tow. Outside Hiccup managed to get out of her vice grip, "Okay, first I don't remember anything with Tenzin and-" Korra put both hands on his shoulders, "We need to see your mom. NOW."
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"Are you 100% sure that was what he said?" Hiccup asked, Korra groaned, "Hiccup, for the FIFTH time YES. I am sure." she said frustratedly, Lin sighed, "Hiccup, I understand this is hard to accept, but he has motive, means, and you know as well as I, that those are good reasons for committing crimes." Hiccup shook his head, "But we didn't find anything in the where house that can convict him. And how do we know that this source is reliable?" he asked as they approached the tracks, Korra felt sad for him, Hiroshi and Asami where the first real people who he was friends with, he was probably in denial. As the continued onward a older man stepped out from the shadows, "You got my message?" he asked, Korra nodded, "Look, I was all for non benders getting some say on the city, but I didn't sign up for the draft, Hiroshi's been developing all sorts of things for Amon. Weapons, vehicles, whatever the big guy wants, he makes in his factory." he said, Lin stepped forward, "We checked every inch of the where house, and found nothing." she said, the man shook his head, "That's because the factory is under the Sato estate."
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Hiccup was absentmindedly fiddling with Toothless's riding gear, they had decided that taking the airship over would give them time to think. Korra was beginning to worry, Hiccup hasn't said a word since the man's meeting. He'd just been in a daze or something the whole time. Lin was about to call the station but saw how her son was acting, she put a hand on Korra's shoulder, "Please talk to him, if I ask he'll say nothing's wrong." Korra nodded and walked over to him. Not noticing her presence, he jumped a bit when Korra put her head in the crook of his neck, "Hey. You alright?" she asked, Hiccup, pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed, "I don't know...mad maybe...but I'm sad to." he said as he ran a hand through his hair, "Korra, look I know your worried, don't ask me how but I just know. But I wan...need to do this my own way. Okay?" he asked, Korra shook her head and pecked him on the cheek, "Remember our promise, I'm your rock, okay?" she said with a smile on tugging on her lips. Hiccup couldn't help but grin, "Yea, I know."
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"I can't believe all of you! My father is not a Equilist! Hiccup, you can't seriously think this." Asami said as the officers searched her back yard, Mako placed a hand on her shoulder. "Look, I don't know what we'll find, I hope we don't find anything. But if we do find anything, and if we do, I'm sure your dad will explain everything." Hiccup said, trying to calm both her and himself down.
After searching the yard, they entered the workshop and found nothing. "See. There's nothing here! Now will all please leave!" Asami said, Hiccup was about to oblige but something caught his foot, after fumbling his foot hit the ground and felt something...off. The hell with it, Hiccup thought as he stomped his foot down, using seismic sense he felt it again, Dammit, Sprits dammit! "There's a tunnel. Underneath the metal." he said stepping over the spot, he rammed his fist down, making a hole in the ground, bringing his arm up he took the floor with it and threw it off to the side, revealing a tramcar that went downwards, "Whoa, do you think your dad knows about this tunnel?" Bolin asked Asami, who was currently in mild shock, "There...there has to be a explanation." she said, Hiccup now felt horrible. As the him and the others descended he felt Lin put a hand on his shoulder, "Hiccup, I'm-" "Not now." he said with a hint of anger in his voice.
Reaching the bottom of the shaft the group found what they had been searching for, the factory. The posters of Amon looked down upon them, and what looked like mechs stood by the wall, confirming the worst. "Fuck." Hiccup said quietly, though it summed the situation pretty well. Korra was about to try and comfort him but the machines in the corner hummed to life, before any of them could react they launched attacked scattering the group. Hiccup wasn't fast enough to doge the cable and was rammed against the wall.
As the mech came closer, cables grabbed both of it's arms, he looked over to his sides to see two officers restraining it, using the window, he launched himself at it with earthbending and drew his daggers, puncturing the glass, he attempted to grab the operator only to be grabbed by the mech and slammed against the ground, before he could be knocked put, Tenzin sent a airblast at the mech. Standing up, he made a rock column rise behind the mech and made it fall. Rushing over to assist Korra, he saw the strange tank on the back of the mech, That looks important. he thought as he cut the tank, leaking out oil. Korra saw the liquid and shot a fireball at it, the fire trailed back into the tank, exploding a second later, fortunately, the driver was unharmed. Korra shot him a smile, "Thanks!" she shouted, Hiccup nodded. Before they could regroup a clamp locked around his waist and slammed him into the wall, knocking him out.
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Awaking from his 'sleep' he found his hands bound with wire, unable to use his hands, he looked around and saw his mother and friends in similar positions. As he was about to call out to them a familiar voice said, "Good to see you awake my boy." Hiccup looked up to see the Lt. standing beside Hiroshi, "Hiroshi...why?" the old man kneeled in front of Hiccup, "My boy-" Hiccup's anger flared, "DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT! I trusted you, my mother trusted you! You where the closest thing I ever had to a dad." Hiroshi remained calm, "Hiccup bending has brought nothing but pain and misery, the hundred year war killed almost all the airbenders. You can't deny that." Hiccup's gaze hardened, "Yea, but at least the fire nation didn't take away the gifts of everyone that was different than them. Your part of a genocide Hiroshi." the teen said.
Hiroshi shook his head, "Please, I can make it so you don't get locked away, you'll see once this is over that this was the best option." Hiccup's disgust turned to anger, "This is going to end with you and Amon on the ground surrounded by the people whose lives you've ruined." the old man sighed, "Than I'm sorry." he said, Hiccup frowned, "Me to." he said, before Hiroshi shocked him, the compartment in Hiccup's gauntlets opened ands used the water to slice through the wire, using his earthbending, he made a miniature wall, go over him and his friends, as he was about to free them, the Lt. climes ontop of one of the mechs and landed behind Hiccup, before he was knocked out he heard the man say, "Gotta say kid, you got spunk."
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Hiccup awoke expecting to find himself in a cage, but instead found Toothless and Korra looking down at him with concern. "Heyyyyyyy pretty lady." he said, making her smile, Toothless gave his rider a luck on the cheek, "Not you!" Hiccup said, earning a laugh from the three of them, Korra leaned down and captured his lips, the kiss seemed...desperate, like she was relived that he was alright. Breaking away he saw the metalbender officers missing, letting out a sigh he asked, "They got the rest of them didn't they?" Korra nodded, "Good news is that Asami kicked both the mustache guy's and her dad's ass, so she's with us." Hiccup smiled, "How's she holding up?" Korra sighed and looked over her way, "Mako's there for her, but I hope it'll be enough."
Hiccup sighed, She's a strong one. But we all have limits. Hiccup thought. Korra began to stroke his hair, he couldn't help but smile, "So how are you holding up? We heard what you said to Hiroshi." she asked, Hiccup grasped her hand, "Honestly, I feel like hell, but I got alot of it out of my system." he said giving her hand a small kiss, Korra's smile softened, "Your moms been wanting to talk to you. If your up for it." he nodded and stood up from the bench and walked to where his mother was laying down, "You alright?" he asked, the look on her face showed she was...defeated, it scared him, "Tomorrow I'm resigning." she said, voice devoid of emotion, "WHAT! Mom, so we lost this one, but we'll take Amon down, no problem." Lin shook her head, "Tarrlock would have me out of my job anyway. That's why your taking over." Hiccup's head was spinning, him in charge? Crazy, "I'll do my best. But I will hate paperwork even more." he said earning a chuckle from the both of them. Pulling her into a hug he whispered, "I love you mom." Lin smiled, "I love you too my little castaway." Hiccup blushed, "MOM!"
AN: Finally! It is done. I really don't want do do the next chapter, since Tarrlock takes control, but I'll do it. Also, I may have misspoke earlier, I originally wanted Hiccup to find the Viking teens on a survival exercise or something and then have them spill about what being a 'hiccup' is. Then he flys back home, I really like this idea since it gave me some possibilities, I won't say what, but I'm having trouble coming up with a going to berk story arc, so if you guys have any suggestions please, leave them in the comments or send me a pm. Also I am proud to say that this contained my first flashback ever! I hope it was good, if not, you guys can send me advice on how to improve on it. Thank you all for reading!